152 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



[264.] $ . — Body black, variegated with yellow. Head and trunk 

 thickly clothed with long woolly down of a grayish colour ; face with 

 three yellow spots placed in a transverse line behind the antennae, the 

 two lateral ones subtriangular, the intermediate one subquadrangular, with 

 a reddish cloud on its disk ; the nose below the antennae is yellow, 

 inclining to red round the margin ; it has also three black dots placed in 

 a triangle in the disk, the two lower ones being very minute ; the vertex 

 of the nose is also black ; the mandibles are yellow with black tips ; on 

 the outside the orbit of the eyes is reddish-yellow ; the trunk is black 

 underneath ; above the posterior upper margin of the collar, the tegulae 

 which cover the base of the Avings, and a triangular spot underneath 

 them, are yellow ; on the metathorax and scutellum are six yellow spots 

 placed in a double series, the upper and lower pairs being subtriangular, 

 and the intermediate pair crescent-shaped ; the thighs are black at the 

 base, but their apex, and the rest of the leg, and a small triangular spot 

 on the inner side of the four posterior trochanters, are yellow ; the wings 

 are yellowish red with red nervures ; the abdomen, except at the base, is 

 less hairy than the rest of the body ; it is yellow with all the segments 

 black at the base ; though the blackness in the terminal ones is chiefly 

 concealed by the antecedent segments ; in all in the middle it projects 

 into a triangle; the four intermediate ones have also each a round-headed 

 small black spot, the connection of which with the blackness of the base 

 is interrupted in the second segment ; on the under side of the abdomen 

 the base of the segments is black, and the intermediate ones have each a 

 pair of rather crescent-shaped black' spots not connected with the black- 

 ness of the base. 



[Kirby states that the specimen above described differs somewhat from 

 the European wasps of this species, but he considers it to be merely a 

 variety of the latter. Later authors state that both V. vulgaris and V. 

 germanica, European species, are found on this side of the Atlantic] 



365. Vespa borealis Kirby. — Length of body 71 lines. A singl^e 

 specimen taken with the last. • 



[265.] Body black, downy, especially the head and trunk*with gray 

 hairs. Nose trapezoidal, yellow with a black floriform discoidal spot ; 

 anterior margin with three sinuses taken out ; vertex with a trapezoidal 

 yellow spot just above the base of the antennae ; antennae black, luteous 



